Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-02-11
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The attendance at the festival at St.
Peters parish school, Thursday evening,
was large and 1t was success The IN
strumental music by Prof J. Jerome and
Mrs. Dionne and the band was good. The
/ net receipts were $50. Monktou
kaolin works embodies quite village of
itself. Mr.. +. y. Goss, the proprietor,
expended over $1,000 in repairing the
dwellings of his tenants last year, and he
/ is arranging now with Mr.. A. b. Tabor
/ to paint the houses The iewelry branch
| OF Mr.. FOSS business wlll'be moved into
what was The stationery store, which is
undergoing the necessary improvements.
......Ihe voters Jl Stark bOrO intend vot-
| ing on the school question at their next
annual meeting. .....Ihe great carnival at
| Burlington is agtating the public quite
generally.
/ The Iattaw boy, whose death was look
ed Tor week ago, still fingers, but will
/ undoubtedly soon be numbered with the
/ long list OF deaths from the careless use
/ OF fire arms ......A fOuryear's- old son of
u. u. Melggs was buried Tuesday Rev.
Mr.. Austin officiating. The chlld's symp-
| toms suggested dlphtheIia. Mr.. Har-
vey Adams is down with fever He was
in the employ of Mr.. W. Thompson. NJ.
| NJ. GOtt is caring for Mr.. Adams
The FREE PRESS, with its remarkably
! full and satisfactory report of the railroad
| horror at Woodstock, was in great de
mand mere, and the wide awake agent,
/ Mr. \. j. Remand, sold over $50 copies
...,.. There is great call for the carnival
paper, among all classes of our people.
South Hero.
Miss Minerva Gordon goes this week to
johnson to attend the Normal schoo!
Mrs. /. l. Kinney is visiting in Albany
and New York. IAN oyster supper will
be given III the Methodist church at Grand
] NpInnSInN old
men from Colchester broke through the
ice in keeler's Bay, Wednesday and were
picked up by the plattsburgh stage in a
partly frozen condition.
Waterbury.
Daniel d. Woodward, aged 40 years. who
was killed at the Hartford disaster was
brought here Monday. His remains,
eharred beyond recognition, were ldenti-
| fled by papers found in one pocket that
was on the under side He was living
upon the Governor Butler farm He
| leaves three bright, lovely children, a boy
OF II ana two girls aged seven and nine.
| Their mot her died last spring. Mr.. Wood
| ward had been to Providence to sell car
/ load of potatoes. The remains of Stan
| ley > NestcOtt came upon the same train.
| He is son in-law of Christopher Corse of
this place and leaves wife and little girl
aged seven years.
New Haven,
| Willie Hubbard has been sick with fever
! for some weeks, but his physician reports
! his chance now as favorable m Rev.
| Mr.. Sargent returned on Wednesday last
/ occupying the pulpit ON SUNDAY and next
/ Sunday will preach in Weybridge in eX
change with Prof Yager of Middlebury
college e......T The Poland pauper law is not
| a bonanza for New Haven, AS appearances
indicate an increase of the towns wards
| by at least two, thereby Dr. Pres
ton reports considerable sickness about
| town. The administrator of the es-
! tate of l.. W. Stowe has sold the interest
OF said estate in the fixtures of the cream
cry, near the depot, to A. ID. Evarts the
surviving partner, who will remove them
ness under the firm of Evarts x East
| man.
West berkshire.
! Mrs. Norris, the wife of Mr.. John Nor
rls, died Friday, after long illness with
consumption. Mrs. Norris leaves fami.
I ly OF seven children in all, some grown
up, other quite young She was a mem
Der of the Baptist church and was buried
from the Methodist church, February q.
The remains were taken to Abercorn, T..
q, her old home for burial ... Revival
meetings are to commence in the Metho-
dist church soon, Miss Woodbury. is ex-
pected
Alburgh.
There was considerable excitement in
town when it became known that Mr.
Henry Mott of this town was among the
injured at the Woodstock bridge disaster
Mrs. Mott went by team to st. Albans at
l..sa.. i